[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] When about eighteen years old he worked for Colonel Philipse nearly a year, making the terraces west of the manor-house and its garden (see our map of 1*471. Eight or ten carmen from New York were employed. It was one of the most stony places he ever saw. There was an old burying-groiind under the new sections, w Inch was covered up. The ground between the garden ami the river (now about between Hock Street and Wells Avenue) Ml occupied as a deer paddock. Several deer were kept in it. There was a high picket-fence around it; but sometimes the deer broke out and made for the tobacco plantations of the farmers (almost every farmer then raised tobaccr.l. They were as fond of tobacco us of cuhlmgc. and, in their raids upon it, they sometimes did much damage. One day a fine buck was observed to be studying the |>aling, apparently with a view to escape. He was look-1 YONKERS. Within the lawn all was culture. Grand old trees, domestic and foreign, some of them English yews, also supposed to have been imported by Colonel Philipse as early as 1762, still adorned the grounds, as did also a profusion of the richest plants and flowers. Along the south of the lawn was a row of locust-trees. Outside this charmed spot there were pastures, or-chards and tilled fields to the fullest extent of Mr. Wells' ambition. And yet it remains true that at the date of his death the conditions of nature over by far the largest part of his land had been but little dis-turbed by cultivation.